This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Authors > Dante > Dante – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Dante Quiz 5 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following is NOT true of Dante? A) He was a soldier. B) He studied classical literature. C) He was a politician. D) He was born in Venice, Italy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He was born in Venice, Italy. 2. According to Dante, which is the most serious sin in hell? A) Gluttony. B) Avarice. C) Heresy. D) Treachery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Treachery. 3. Who was Costanza, whom Dante meets in canto III? A) The mother of Emperor Frederick II. B) The sister of a friend of Dante. C) The queen of Italy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The mother of Emperor Frederick II. 4. What is the rhyme scheme of Divine Comedy? A) Aba bcb cdc dcd. B) Abba bccb cddc deed. C) Aaa bbb ccc ddd. D) Bab cbc ded fdf. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aba bcb cdc dcd. 5. According to Dante's moral reasoning in Inferno, one's experiences in the afterlife are based upon one's ..... while on earth. A) Goodness. B) Choices. C) Good intentions. D) Earthly riches. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Choices. 6. In The Paradiso, on what day do the events occur? A) Easter Sunday. B) Wednesday after Easter. C) Good Friday. D) All Saint's Day. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wednesday after Easter. 7. Who is one of the most sensual figures in the Divine Comedy? A) Dante. B) Beatrice. C) Odysseus. D) Virgil. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Odysseus. 8. Who is Geryon? A) A demon who carries the poets across the River Acheron. B) A demon who carries the poets down the waterfall to Circle 8. C) A demon who carries the poets across the River Styx. D) A demon who determines which Circle every soul goes to. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A demon who carries the poets down the waterfall to Circle 8. 9. This fast moving hot cloud of ash, hot gases and steam and volcanic bombs can move down the mountain at speeds of 200 km/h. A) Lahar. B) Pyroclastic Flow. C) Steam cloud. D) Lapilli. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pyroclastic Flow. 10. Why does Dante go on the journey to the afterlife? A) He won it in a competition. B) You have to learn from it. C) Meet your friends. D) Because he died. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) You have to learn from it. 11. The Divine Comedy is written in ENDECASYLABLE TRIPLE. What rhyme and pattern does it use? A) Sonnet, two quatrains and two tercets. B) Chained rhyme ABBA. C) Couplet rhyme AABB. D) Alternating rhyme ABAB. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chained rhyme ABBA. 12. What caused the wind in this layer? A) Satan. B) God. C) The weather. D) Minos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Satan. 13. How many subscribers does dtay knowns have? A) 100k. B) 998k. C) 50k. D) 19k. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 998k. 14. In which way was Dante a precursor of humanism? A) He wrote classical epics with Christian materials. B) He promoted the worship of idolatrous statues from the ancient times. C) He rejected the influence of Scholasticism. D) He was uninterested in the poetics of the sublime. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He wrote classical epics with Christian materials. 15. "So kind and honest it seems" is (choose the correct statements) A) The title of a sonnet. B) The title of a lauda. C) A stanza of a poem. D) A line from a sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The title of a sonnet. 16. In the Divine Comedy Dante personifies ..... A) Faith. B) The humanity. C) The reason. D) All three are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The humanity. 17. How many mouths does Lucifer have? A) 1. B) 2. C) 3. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3. 18. Who are guilty in the lobby of Hell? A) They are unbaptized. B) They are indifferent. C) Sinners of love. D) A harassment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They are indifferent. 19. What epithet did contemporaries associate with Dante's work? A) Fantastic. B) Super. C) Mystery. D) Divina. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Divina. 20. What is the function of the Primum Mobile? A) It symbolizes Dante's distrust of the Church. B) It is the home of the angels. C) It separates heaven from hell. D) It reminds Dante of his own pride. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It is the home of the angels. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesAuthors QuizzesDante Quiz 1Dante Quiz 2Dante Quiz 3Dante Quiz 4Dante Quiz 6Dante Quiz 7Dante Quiz 8Dante Quiz 9Dante Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books